Hither · keyboard-driven window & Space switcher for macOS
The window comes to you.
Give every app its own shortcut. One press and its window is in front of you, on any Space, even a native-fullscreen desktop. No hunting. No ⌘⇥ roulette.
brew install --cask bearforgelabs/tap/hither
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Hither in a ribbon of keywords
THE ⌘⇥ TAX
You know exactly where your app is. So why are you still hunting for it?
Twenty windows. Four Spaces. Two of them fullscreen. ⌘⇥ shows you app icons, not windows, so you tab, guess, overshoot, tab back. Every switch is a tiny search. All day. Multiply by a career.
Muscle memory beats a menu. Every time.
Context-switching a few hundred times a day. Hither makes each one a single keypress.
How it works
Bind a key. Press it. The window lands.
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Bind a shortcut.
Point a key combo at any app in plain JSON. ⌃⇧B → Chrome
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Press it.
One keystroke. No menu, no cycling, no mouse.
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Front and center.
It snaps to the front, across Spaces, through fullscreen. Mouse optionally centered so your cursor lands where the action is.
Search Switcher
Forgot the shortcut? Type the title.
A command palette that searches every open window by name, across every Space. Type and the matching letters light up in each result. Fuzzy, fast, keyboard-only.
Press Option-Space to summon the Search Switcher.
Demonstration: typing “read” into the Search Switcher filters the window list down to README.md in Hither, Reading List in Safari, and Threading in Xcode.
CROSS-SPACE · FULLSCREEN-AWARE
Reach a window on any desktop. Even fullscreen.
⌘⇥ can’t leave the Space you’re on. Hither can. It switches Spaces to reach a window living on another desktop, including a native-fullscreen app, then brings it to the front.
Deep macOS integration. Yes, really.
It goes where ⌘⇥ can’t.
Make it yours
Your HUD, your palette.
The switcher ships in dark plum with a magenta→orange selection pill and that glowing amber current-window dot. Prefer something else? It themes.
If your editor has a theme, Hither probably speaks it.
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Tokyo Night -
Catppuccin Mocha -
Gruvbox -
SynthWave '84 -
Kanagawa -
Nord -
Dracula -
Solarized Dark -
Monokai Pro -
Catppuccin Latte -
GitHub Light -
Solarized Light -
Rosé Pine Dawn -
One Light -
Tokyo Night Day -
Ayu Light -
Gruvbox Light
Every little power
Small powers, all keyboard.
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Mouse-centering
Your cursor lands in the window, ready to type.
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Launch if not running
The shortcut is the app, open or asleep.
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Desktop switcher
Bind Spaces by left-to-right position. ⌥1 is always leftmost.
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Minimized windows
Buried in the Dock? Still reachable.
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Hot-reload config
Save the JSON; changes apply live, no restart.
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Type-to-filter
Start typing a title to narrow the list.
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In-HUD actions
Close, minimize or quit the highlighted window without leaving.
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Menu-bar agent
Lives in the menu bar, no Dock icon. Diagnostics are anonymous and opt-out.
Config
It’s just JSON. It reloads itself.
Everything lives in ~/.config/hither/config.json: plain, readable, hot-reloaded. Edit by hand or let another tool manage it.
{ "center-mouse-cursor": true, "launch-application": true, "hot-reload-config": true, "include-minimized-windows": true, "type-to-filter": true, "hud-display-delay-ms": 200, "hud-placement": "mouse-screen", "applications": { "Google Chrome": { "bundle-id": "com.google.Chrome", "shortcut": ["control", "shift", "b"], "enabled": true } }}-
center-mouse-cursorThe cursor lands in the window, ready to type.
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hud-display-delay-msA quick tap skips the HUD; hold to browse the list.
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applicationsYour keys, any app. Point a combo at anything you launch.
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Save the file. Hither is already watching; changes apply live, no restart.
See it in action
Two ways to jump straight there.
Bind a key to jump straight to an app, or search every open window by title. Real footage, no mockups.
What people say
You didn’t know you needed it.
- ★★★★★
“Honestly, I didn’t think I needed this. Installed it because I kept losing windows across Spaces and now I use it constantly. The shortcut to jump straight back to an app is probably my favorite part.”
Rohan Mehta - ★★★★★
“This is basically what I always wanted Cmd-Tab to be. I don't want to cycle through apps, I want to go to that specific window. The search switcher gets this right.”
Alex Chen - ★★★★★
“Very clever little utility. Fast, unobtrusive and does exactly what it says. I’ve already stopped using Cmd-Tab.”
Chris Walker - ★★★★★
“I usually have Terminal, VS Code, browser, Slack, docs, etc. spread across 3 Spaces. Hither makes switching between them way less annoying. Especially useful when I’ve got multiple windows of the same app open.”
Daniel Brooks - ★★★★★
“I work with a stupid number of browser windows. Hither has made finding the right one much easier. Type a couple letters, hit enter, done.”
Vikram Rao - ★★★★★
“The overlay is actually really nice. A lot of Mac utilities look like they were designed in 2012. This one feels properly native and the themes are a nice touch.”
Maya Thompson - ★★★★★
“I like that it just sits in the menu bar and doesn't try to turn my Mac into a spaceship. Set up a few shortcuts, forgot about it, and now I use it dozens of times a day.”
Priya Shah - ★★★★★
“One of the things that convinced me to try it was that it doesn't need an account or an internet connection to do its job. It's just a little Mac utility sitting in the menu bar. Exactly how I prefer these things.”
Neha Iyer - ★★★★★
“Really nice implementation. It feels lightweight, launches quickly, and I appreciate that it isn't another subscription. Small utility, but one of those things that becomes part of your daily workflow.”
James Foster
Pricing
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- One-time purchase, not a subscription
- Activates on up to 3 Macs
- Free updates, forever
- macOS Sonoma or later
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Get Hither
One line. Then never hunt for a window again.
brew install --cask bearforgelabs/tap/hither
- Run the command
- Grant Accessibility access one time
- Bind your first shortcut
Self-signed and not notarized, so the cask clears the quarantine flag for you, and it just opens. No account. Anonymous, opt-out diagnostics only.
7 days free. Then $8.99, once.
Prefer a direct download? Grab the .dmg. On macOS 15+ you’ll use System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.